[fpc-pascal] Happy tickets benchmark

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 15 Feb 2016, Serguei TARASSOV wrote:

> On 15/02/2016 12:00, fpc-pascal-request at lists.freepascal.org wrote:
>> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 07:55:55 +0100
>> From: Florian Kl?mpfl<florian at freepascal.org>
>> To:<adrian at veith-system.de>, "FPC-Pascal users discussions"
>> 	<fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org>, Adrian Veith<adrian at vtim.de>
>> Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] Happy tickets benchmark
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>> Well, as said before: if the speed of code like this is important for you,
>> use C.
> It's a wrong choice.
> As we can see and reproduce, at least C# or other Pascal-like environments 
> (Oxygene) are significantly faster.
> http://www.arbinada.com/main/en/node/1532
>

What Florian means is that this is very artificial code, and that - although
he has been able to apply the necessary patches to make FPC faster - the
necessary optimizations are not likely to help in real-life programs.

Michael.